Blogs — Varaha Jayanti

There is a moment, somewhere in the oldest stories Hindus tell, when the earth stops spinning through space and starts sinking through water. Not metaphorically — literally, the way a stone sinks. Bhudevi, the goddess who is the earth, is dragged into the dark folds of Patala Loka by a demon who believes strength alone can own the world. And the only thing standing between her and eternal darkness is a boar. That boar is Lord Vishnu. And the day he surfaced, tusks lifting the entire planet out of the water, is what we now celebrate as Varaha Jayanti. In...